Teaching Chemical Information in a Liberal Arts Curriculum

Ricker, Alison; Thompson, Robert Q.

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“…There are numerous strategies and activities that have been published in this Journal regarding teaching chemical information. − For example, modules for searching and reading the primary literature have been created for general, − organic, − and analytical chemistry courses, as well as “Introduction to research” courses. , There are published activities in which students learn how to use SciFinder Scholar. ,, Complete courses in chemical information literacy have been reported at both the undergraduate and graduate level. The idea of a dedicated course in a liberal arts setting is not a new one.…”

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Chemical Information Literacy at a Liberal Arts College

Greco

2015

J. Chem. Educ.

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Chemistry majors at Goucher College are now required to take a 1-credit course in their sophomore year entitled Chemical Information Literacy. Students in the course learn the structure and organization of the chemical literature, and how to carry out searches of various databases for topic, author, chemical compound, or structure. They learn related skills such as how to use a citation manager to organize citations, and how to use a structure-drawing program. Students are also exposed to the patent literature, and databases of molecular properties. A highlight of the course is a unit on current events in which students learn how to read a paper for general content even if they do not understand every word of it. The course culminates in students choosing a topic of interest to them, and preparing an annotated bibliography that can be used for writing a review article in a subsequent course. As a result of this course, students learn the skills required to be productive researchers, and develop an appreciation for the breadth of chemistry within the first half of their college careers. Furthermore, use of both the ACS journals subscription and the SciFinder search engine among students increased dramatically as a result of this course.

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“…The idea of a dedicated course in a liberal arts setting is not a new one. Many of our peer schools have such a course, and a paper describing one appeared in this Journal 16 years ago . However, in 1999, STN Easy was the state of the art search engine for the CAS database, and many databases that exist today did not yet exist; therefore, an update is timely.…”

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Chemical Information Literacy at a Liberal Arts College

Greco

2015

J. Chem. Educ.

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Replacing the Traditional Graduate Chemistry Literature Seminar with a Chemical Research Literacy Course

2015

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The new course, CH584Literature and Communication in Graduate Chemistry, replaced a second year graduate student literature seminar requirement. Course topics included chemical information resources, critical analysis, scientific writing, scientific presentations, and peer-review. CH584 was well received by both the chemistry faculty and chemistry graduate students. This article discusses the detailed implementation and content taught in CH584. Moreover, we present our experiences teaching CH584 as well as potential revisions.

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Teaching Chemical Information for the Future: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

Currano

2014

ACS Symposium Series

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Teaching Chemical Information in a Liberal Arts Curriculum

Abstract: This paper gives a synopsis of our current approach to teaching a course on chemical information at Oberlin College 1 and reports changes made during the past two years. We have described the course in some detail elsewhere (1).

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Chemical Information Literacy at a Liberal Arts College

Chemical Information Literacy at a Liberal Arts College

Replacing the Traditional Graduate Chemistry Literature Seminar with a Chemical Research Literacy Course

Teaching Chemical Information for the Future: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

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